rmd | book and movie memes

1) Total number of films I own on DVD/video:
more than 20, fewer than 100. probably somewhere in the vicinity of 60. many of them in foriegn languages. i have about a dozen i got from troma because they were $0.25 each.

2) The last film I bought:
Primer

3) The last film I watched:
At home on media? Primer.

4) Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me: [In no particular order, and this list may change at any time]
Apollo 13 or maybe The Right Stuff
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Wings of Desire
Real Genius
Pi

5) Tag 5 people and have them put this in their journal:
Any 5 people who care to do so.

1) Total number of books owned.
A lot. I've done a few sell-offs over the years, but I still have a lot. fewer than many folks I know, because I know folks with a *whole* lot of books. I'd say right now about 1000, +/- a hundred or two. Over the past 5 or 8 years, I've been moving more towards nonfiction.

2) The last book I bought.
"Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842", Nathaniel Philbrick

3) The last book I read.
"Under the Banner of Heaven" by John Krakauer (I'm only partway thru "Sea of Glory" now)

4) 5 books that mean a lot to me?
Godbody, Theodore Sturgeon or maybe some of his short stories
Zodiac, Neil Stephenson
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Illuminatus! by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson